Emilie Gordenker

Emilie Gordenker is a US-Dutch art historian and has been General Director of the Van Gogh Museum since 2020. Gordenker studied Russian and East European studies at Yale, and obtained a PhD in the history of art, specialising in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She worked as a freelance art historian and in new media, before becoming Senior Curator of Early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Scotland. From 2008 until 2020, Gordenker was Director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, where among other things she completed the major expansion of the museum. Gordenker is a member of the Advisory Board of the Nexus Institute.